Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Jeff Simon, book editor of The Buffalo News, made Alistair Cooke's Reporting America his "Editor's Choice" this week: "This beautifully illustrated book collects 89 letters, from first to last, whereby the soul of urbanity and intelligence tackles a world of American subjects, from the not-so-quotidian to the not-so-apocalyptic. You’ll find Cooke on everything from Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, Gary Cooper and Marilyn Monroe to Chappaquiddick, Watergate, the assassinations of JFK and John Lennon and 9/11. . . Here is one steady brilliant voice to echo, if not emulate, in the era of cable- TV’s 24-hour News Babel."

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